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Greg Wang and a collaborative team of researchers have uncovered a new mechanism that activates specific genes, leading to the development of cancers. This research was led by postdoc Jeong Hyun Ahn PhD from Greg Wang’s lab.
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Researchers Silvia Kreda, PhD, and Rudolph Juliano, PhD, created an improved oligonucleotide therapy strategy with the potential for treating other pulmonary diseases, such as COPD and asthma. Their research was published in the journal Nucleic Acids Research.
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Congratulations Juan Carvajal Garcia PhD on your Graduate Fellow Award in Basic Science by UNC Lineberger! The Lineberger Graduate Award recognizes the Cancer Center’s top PhD students for not only their superb research studies but also for service to the University of North Carolina as well as outreach to the local community. Juan Carvajal Garcia’s …
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Ben Roberts in Neher lab has been awarded the 2021 Diane Harris Leadership Award for exemplary public service.
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Pengda Liu, PhD, and colleagues have discovered a gene, OTUD7A, that impacts the development of Ewing sarcoma, a bonecancer that occurs mainly in children, as well as a compound that shows potential to block OTUD7A protein activity.
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On May 28, 2021 our second year incoming students were welcomed to an social outing with empanadas at Luna’s Rotisserie in Carrboro.
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Two postdocs Drs. Siyuan Su and Jianfeng Chen and a BBSP graduate student Ying Wang in Pengda Liu Lab led this study during the pandemic. Lilly Wong from Guochun Jiang Lab plays a major role in in-vitro infection models.
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Congratulations to graduate student, Natalie Tanke, in collaboration with The Cook Lab. She is the recipient of F31 predoctoral fellowship award from NIH NHLBI the leading NIH institute on heart, lung, blood, & sleep disorders research. Project title is “Endothelial Cell Cycle Responses to Fluid Shear Stress.” The funding began on May 1, 2021. Congratulations …
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Congratulations to Shuai Zhao PhD for his timely comprehensive review article in Nature Reviews Cancer.
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Crilly said she chose to attend UNC-Chapel Hill because of its reputation as a research institution. At Carolina, she studies under Gary Pielak, a Kenan Distinguished Professor, and is a part of his research group. “When I got to UNC, I wanted to mentor people, and mentorship is a big part of his lab,” Dr. Pielak holds a joint appointment at the UNC School of Medicine in Biochemistry and Biophysics.
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We would like to congratulate all of our graduates for earning their PhDs between August 2019 and May 2021.